MPDL joins the Stakeholder Advisory Board of BioBlock

The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) is pleased to announce its participation in the Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB) of the BioBlock project. Building on insights from its blockchain initiative bloxberg, MPDL will bring expertise in decentralized scientific infrastructure, rigorous data verification, and open‑science ecosystem design to support BioBlock. Within the Stakeholder Advisory Board, MPDL will help co‑develop governance and technical frameworks that enhance trust, transparency, and reproducibility in biotechnology research and data management, while enabling verifiable research data, FAIR principles, and secure collaboration to drive innovation and reliable knowledge sharing across the project.

BioBlock (“The blockchain marketplace for biotech data and innovation”) is an innovation project led by Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin). From January 2025 to December 2028, it is funded by the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR) under the DATIpilot BioBlock Innovationscommunity program. The project aims to establish a secure and transparent knowledge and data exchange platform for the biotechnology industry, developing collaboration between research, industry, and civic innovation.

The BioBlock platform will explore new approaches to securely manage, share, and validate scientific data in biotechnology using technologies such as blockchain, IPFS, and FAIR data principles. By integrating expertise from academia, industry, and civic organizations, the initiative aims to create a sustainable model for data-driven innovation in life sciences.